Upcoming Farenthold Endowed Lecture Events
The Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture Series in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights honors Sissy for her relentless pursuit of social justice. Houston’s Rothko Chapel, where Sissy served as chair of the board for many years, hosts the lecture at the Chapel in alternating years.
In line with Sissy’s own history of exposing and responding to injustices and inequality as both a public servant and citizen, the lecture series brings to Austin and Houston internationally renowned scholars, activists and politicians who inspire their audiences to think and act creatively to respond to some of the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
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Previous Farenthold Endowed Lecture Events
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Kathryn Bond Stockton: “I Was a Queer Child and So Were You: Toward Social and Cultural Transformation”
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Dorothy Roberts: “The Long Struggle to Abolish Reproductive Slavery”
Speaker:- Dorothy Roberts George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania
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Arundhati Roy: “Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus”
Speaker:- Arundhati Roy Author and Political Activist
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Charles M. Blow: “Is this really a racial reckoning?”
Speaker:- Charles M. Blow New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Author of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones"
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore: “Meanwhile: Making Abolition Geographies”
Speaker:- Ruth Wilson Gilmore Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, American Studies; Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Elizabeth Yeampierre: “Climate Justice: The Time is Now, The Place is Here”
Speaker:- Elizabeth Yeampierre Executive Director, UPROSE and Co-Chair, Climate Justice Alliance
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Ai-jen Poo: “Immigration and the Future of American Families”
Speaker:- Ai-jen Poo National Domestic Workers Alliance, Caring Across Generations
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Darren Walker: “Yes Justice, Yes Peace: The Role of Art in Confronting Inequality”
Speaker:- Darren Walker President, Ford Foundation
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Mark Danner: “Spiraling Down: Human Rights, Endless War”
Speaker:- Mark Danner Chancellor’s Professor of English and Journalism, UC Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities, Bard College